Northrop Grumman confirmed as prime for Space Force's RRS-G tracking program
Space Force named its ground-target-tracking program RRS-G and confirmed Northrop Grumman as prime, per Breaking Defense.
what happened
The U.S. Space Force disclosed the formal name of its Ground Moving Target Indicator program, Resilient Radar System-Ground (RRS-G), and confirmed Northrop Grumman as prime contractor, per Lt. Gen. Gregory Gagnon, commander of Space Force Combat Forces Command, reported by Breaking Defense and DefenseScoop. The Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office are co-developing RRS-G, with the Space Force as lead military operator and the NRO handling satellite command and control, sustainment, and ground architecture; Gagnon said the constellation is targeted to be on orbit within the next two years. No contract value was disclosed. The system is meant to track ground targets such as tanks, surface ships, and mobile troops, building on the Space Force's August stand-up of its first space-based sensing unit for the mission.
why it matters
Naming Northrop Grumman as RRS-G prime, alongside its existing SDA Transport Layer and DARC radar work, cements the company as a leading Space Force ground-tracking contractor even as SpaceX holds the parallel air-moving-target (AMTI) backbone contract. The lack of a disclosed contract value means the program's near-term revenue impact for Northrop is unclear, but the two-year on-orbit target signals near-term satellite and ground-segment procurement ahead for suppliers in the space-based sensing chain.
for who
Defense primes, space-based ISR suppliers
signal-to-noise
quick facts
- Companies
- Northrop Grumman
- Category
- procurement
- Impact
- notable
- SNR
- 4 / 5
- Event date
- 2026-09-16
- Published
- 2026-09-17 22:03 UTC